This same circumstance was my life. The very first time I ever heard my dad cuss sincerely was when he tried to teach me to drive stick shift the first time. Awesome piece.
Ugh! So many sympathetic memories! I finally got to the point where I was pretty confident in a big truck with a stick as long as it wasn't stop and go city traffic. But I never got to where I enjoyed driving stick or felt good in the hills with it. I'm really glad it''lol be a nonissue for teaching my girls to drive since almost everything is automatic now. Nice entry! It brought on fun, of painful memories.
Teaching someone to drive a clutch takes a lot of patience and forbearance, which unfortunately your father did not have. This was a great reminiscence with a lot of good dialogue. Learning to drive a manual transmission when you don't have a lot of experience is a gutsy thing to try.
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